Avenge the Fallen Poster Parodies — Three side-by-side Avenge the Fallen parody posters featuring Luigi, Edward Norton, and Mufasa.

Avenge the Fallen Poster Parodies

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Published October 28, 2026

Avenge the Fallen Poster Parodies began on March 26, 2019, when Marvel released 32 Avengers: Endgame character posters splitting heroes into full-color survivors and black-and-white casualties of Thanos's snap. Within hours, Twitter users photoshopped the template with Luigi, Ned Stark, Pixar tearjerkers, and Goose the Cat. By that evening, Polygon and Newsweek had rounded up the best edits as a viral 'in memoriam' for non-Marvel fictional dead1.

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Overview

Each parody keeps Marvel's official layout: a single character's head, a desaturated or full-color treatment, and the words 'Avenge the Fallen' stamped underneath1. Color stays reserved for surviving characters, while black-and-white marks the dead or forgotten, letting creators sort any fictional cast into the binary Marvel used to tease Endgame3. Threads worked especially well because the original rollout was itself a 32-poster thread, so fans could match the format at scale1.

Pixar-themed sets focused on childhood tearjerkers from Up, Finding Nemo, and Toy Story 37. Other variants pointed inward at Marvel itself: edits featuring Edward Norton and Terrence Howard, the recast Bruce Banner and Rhodey, framed the franchise's own casting changes as a quiet death toll1. A separate thread memorialized overlooked MCU women including Darcy Lewis, Jane Foster, and Sharon Carter1. Media writeups covered edits spanning Ned Stark, Bambi's mother, the Jurassic Park 3 T-rex, Vine, and South Park's Kenny13.

Origin & Background

Platform
Twitter
Creator
Unknown
Date
2019

Marvel Entertainment released 32 Avengers: Endgame character posters on March 26, 2019, each showing one Avenger overlaid with the tagline 'Avenge the Fallen'3. Characters who survived Thanos's snap at the end of Infinity War appeared in full color; characters who disintegrated appeared desaturated to black and white1. Marvel announced the set on Twitter the same afternoon with the caption '1 Month. #AvengersEndgame,' and the thread picked up more than 15,000 retweets and 42,000 likes inside 24 hours2.

Within hours, fans began photoshopping the template with other fictional dead. Video games writer @Nibellion published an Endgame-style Luigi poster, nodding to Luigi's cameo death in a 2018 Super Smash Bros. Ultimate trailer5. That post gathered over 280 retweets and 1,800 likes in its first day4.

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How It Spread

@darth followed with a grid of pop-culture characters who had died in their respective properties, including Ned Stark from Game of Thrones, which collected 1,200 retweets and 4,400 likes in the first day6. @Jeff_Delgado's Pixar-death thread hit similar numbers at over 1,000 retweets and 3,300 likes in 24 hours7. The widest-reaching single edit on March 26 came from concept artist @Bosslogic, whose Goose the Cat tribute from Captain Marvel climbed past 14,000 retweets and 35,000 likes the same day8.

By that evening Polygon had compiled a roundup covering the Jurassic Park 3 T-rex, Vine, and a Final Fantasy-themed addition, plus the Edward Norton and Terrence Howard casting-swap gag1. Newsweek wrote up the trend with the #AvengeTheFallen hashtag and linked out to a Photoshop template so readers could add their own characters3. PopBuzz collected further variants that referenced Riverdale and cancelled TV shows alongside the fictional deaths9. Coverage ran under one month before the April 26, 2019 theatrical release of Endgame, after which the format quieted along with the pre-launch marketing cycle1.

Timeline

2019-03-26

Marvel Entertainment published 32 Avengers: Endgame character posters on Twitter with the tagline 'Avenge the Fallen,' splitting heroes into color survivors and black-and-white casualties[2].

2019-03-26

@Nibellion posted an Endgame-style Luigi poster, among the earliest documented parodies of the format[5].

2019-03-26

@Bosslogic posted a Goose the Cat edit that drew over 14,000 retweets and 35,000 likes inside 24 hours[8].

2019-03-26

Polygon published a roundup of fan parodies covering Luigi, Ned Stark, Pixar characters, Vine, and the Jurassic Park 3 T-rex[1].

2019-03-26

Newsweek wrote up the #AvengeTheFallen trend and linked to a Photoshop template[3].

2019-04-26

Avengers: Endgame released in U.S. theaters, closing the one-month promotional window the parodies had attached to[3].

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How to Use This Meme

The common convention is to pick a dead or vanished fictional character, isolate a headshot, and place it under the 'Avenge the Fallen' tagline in Marvel's exact typeface and layout. Survivors typically stay in full color while the fallen appear in black and white, mirroring Marvel's survivor/casualty split1. Newsweek pointed readers to a free Photoshop template built from the originals so anyone could add their own character3.

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